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high 7.5

CVE-2026-47886 json

Spring Framework Denial of Service via Unbounded Exponentiation in SpEL Expressions

published 2026-08-27 2 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 59 d ago also EUVD-2026-66854

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Applications that evaluate user-supplied Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expressions may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack when the power operator (^) is used with a BigDecimal or BigInteger operand and a large exponent value. Spring Framework 7.0.0 - 7.0.8 Spring Framework 6.2.0 - 6.2.19 Spring Framework 6.1.0 - 6.1.28 Spring Framework 6.0.0 - 6.0.30 Spring Framework 5.3.0 - 5.3.49 Spring Framework 5.2.25.RELEASE and earlier

Patch / fix

  • vmware spring_framework 5.2.26, 5.3.50, 6.0.31, 6.1.29, 6.2.20, 7.0.8.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-47886 updated cvss 7.5

Spring Framework: org.springframework/spring-expression: Spring Framework: Denial of Service via unbounded exponentiation in SpEL expressions

  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services jenkins Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-log-sink-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-s3-sink-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-sns-sink-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-sqs-sink-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-timer-source-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-s3-source-rhel9, +2 more Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 spring-expression
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.12 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8 1792044326
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88152
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.13 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8 1792044327
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88149
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.14 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8 1792044382
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88151
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.15 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8 1792044386
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88150
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.16 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040287
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88156
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.17 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040131
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88159
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.18 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792041514
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88153
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  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.19 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040733
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88158
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.20 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040081
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88157
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.21 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040096
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88155
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.22 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040428
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88154
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 devspaces/openvsx-rhel9 1792494821, devspaces/pluginregistry-rhel9 1792495212
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:90321
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.12 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel8 1792044376 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.13 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel8 1792044361 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.14 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel8 1792044402 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.15 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel8 1792044379 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.16 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel9 1792040156 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.17 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel9 1792040149
    +5 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.18 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel9 1792041201 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.19 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel9 1792040114 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.20 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel9 1792040274 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.21 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel9 1792039948 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.22 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel9 1792040297
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3 spring-expression Red Hat Fuse 7 spring-expression, org.apache.servicemix.bundles.spring-expression
    not affected: vulnerable code not in execute path
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 devspaces/udi-rhel9 1792708612, devspaces/code-rhel9 1792599388, devspaces/server-rhel9 1792775639, devspaces/traefik-rhel9 1792464177, devspaces/udi-base-rhel9 1792686842, devspaces/code-sshd-rhel9 1792598059, +8 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Spring Spring Framework

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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